Staff Picks Book Reviews
Porchlight is a company filled with voracious readers—talented, creative individuals who know books, and who excel at moving them. Whenever we can, we like to do that by telling you about the books we’re reading.
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I’d Like to Say Sorry, but There’s No One to Say Sorry To : Stories
Book Review by Emily Porter
This small and powerful collection shows that the past remains present, and that we must fully recognize and reconcile with its influence on the present.
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Don't Cry for Me: A Novel
Book Review by Emily Porter
There is literature that reaches into your soul and shifts something within you, and this book is one of them. This book is going to become a necessary addition on the classics shelf.
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Nobody Will Tell You This But Me
Book Review by Lauren Kohlenberg
Bess Kalb’s debut memoir, Nobody Will Tell You This But Me, is a delightfully honest and heartfelt homage to the life and legacy of her beloved grandmother, Bobby.
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Olga Dies Dreaming
Book Review by Gabbi Cisneros
Xochitl Gonzalez’s debut novel is as much romantic comedy as it is a search for a balanced personal and political manifesto.
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How High We Go in the Dark: A Novel
Book Review by Emily Porter
Beginning in 2030 and spanning generations beyond, Sequoia Nagamatsu’s How High We Go in the Dark tells the story of humanity trying to live in a world desecrated by an Arctic plague that spreads through contaminated water, changing the world as we know it.
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Still Life: A Novel
Book Review by Emily Porter
Sarah Winman, again, graces us with her storytelling, adorning the lives of people who have never been, yet somehow leave an impression on our hearts and minds as if they were close personal friends.
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The Pivot: Addressing Global Problems Through Local Action
Book Review by Dylan Schleicher
Steve Hamm joined a project that aimed to bring cutting-edge technologies and concepts to bear on the problem of climate change, and discovered the most powerful tool was that of human connection.
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The Cactus and Snowflake at Work: How the Logical and Sensitive Can Thrive Side by Side
Book Review by Gabbi Cisneros
Neither sensitivity nor snowflakes themselves should be labeled as lesser than, and through The Cactus and Snowflake at Work, we can see and learn how to use the strengths from both personality types.
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The Minimalist Entrepreneur: How Great Founders Do More with Less
Book Review by Dylan Schleicher
Sahil Lavingia reminds us that there is more than one way to found a startup, and that the way it's done in Silicon Valley may not be the best or most sustainable way for most entrepreneurs—or for the world.
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The Electricity of Every Living Thing: A Woman's Walk in the Wild to Find Her Way Home
Book Review by Emily Porter
This book is easy to devour and an incredibly raw and heartfelt story of one woman's wondrous venture of self-discovery.
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